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Vivid Pink diamond sold off for record £6.5 million in Hong Kong

A rare, 5-carat ‘vivid pink’ diamond was auctioned off for a record £6.5 million at Christies in Hong Kong last week.

The sale made by an unidentified Asian buyer beat the previous record, set 15 years ago in Geneva for a 19.66-carat stone at £4.4 million.

Graff Diamond jewellers set the chickpea-sized stone (a quarter of the size of the Geneva stone) in a ‘cushion-cut’ ring. Francois Curiel, Christie’s Europe chairman described it as a “fabulous pink diamond, probably one of the rarest stones I’ve ever seen.”

The diamond’s pre-sale estimate was between five and seven million dollars. The pink gem’s per-carat price of £1.3 million was also the highest ever paid for any diamond at auction, according to Christie’s.

£1.2 million a carat for pink coloured diamond

“No stone has ever been sold for £1.2 million a carat, we were used to £600,000 a carat for coloured diamonds but never £1.2 million,” said Curiel. “This is an absolute record that is not going to be broken for a while I believe.”

The South African-mined diamond has minor blemishes, which the auction house says can be removed by minor re-polishing. The bid beat a £6.3 million bid for a seven-carat blue diamond in Geneva this year.

“This definitely went above its high estimate, but that is what the market thought it was worth,” a Christie’s spokeswoman told AFP. “We think this will probably hold for quite some time — it’s a very strong price.”

She added Asian jewellery buyers have become “an extremely important group” for the auction house. “They are very active, very sophisticated and they’re buying at the very high end.”

Cold Noodles from neutral Jewelry

Twenty years ago, more jewelry ads, find that most of the brand positioning has changed, the former more than the “flattering”, but now most of them “pleasure and has” as a starting point. Modern women are increasingly independent, jewelry styles have also begun to go uninhibited line of fall and winter season, tide, but also not difficult to find bands in Taiwan.

Cool cool material

Autumn and winter clothing styles have always indulge in cool colors, jewelry is also closely follow the trend in black, white, silver, gray and other colors become a key indicator. Even CHANEL’s most lovely camellia, but also was transformed into a sparkling ice-cold light signs, flashing in the temple on top. The combined effect of indifferent between the colors is also very obvious, so you see a combination of a more calm.

Cold material is part of silver, diamonds, horns and other materials. Do not think that there is no addition to diamonds, precious materials, in addition, even Hermes have taken the initiative to grow with the horns and silver necklaces, allowed to show light, facial gesture, issued when Didi De friction sound, in the irregular size of the beads of the Inter, but also the size of the petals randomly interspersed irregularly shaped silver pendants, resulting in colors and materials on the jump and contrast. While another used a rose gold and brown diamond bracelet, it appears that many of the atmosphere. The most attractive addition to unusually exaggerated size, the mysterious knitting process to bring a very strong dynamic, stealth hasp, there is one aspect of the diamond-studded brown.

Kourtney Kardashian’s Jewelry Stolen

Reality star, Kourtney Kardashian, is the latest celebrity victim of a home break-in. Find out how much in jewelry is missing – and how much her diamonds really mean to her.

Jewelry thieves are running amok in Hollywood these days, as reality star Kourtney Kardashian joins the ranks of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Audrina Patridge and Hayden Panettiere to suffer from a home break-in.

According to reports, thieves broke into Kardasian’s gated southern California home this weekend while and she was out to dinner with boyfriend, Scott Disick.

Over $100,000 worth of jewelry was taken, including her $30,000 Cartier watch, Disick’s Rolex and various diamond and vintage pieces (some her late father, Robert Kardashian, left her after his death).

But don’t feel too sorry for this diva. Kourtney just returned from a fun-filled trip to Las Vegas to celebrate her sister, Kim’s, birthday and is happily expecting her first child – a son – with Kisick later this year.

Getting robbed, though,is a traumatic experience for anyone. Make sure to protect your jewelry investments by reading up on all the latest jewelry insurance and appraisal information right here on Jewelry.com.

Jeweler lets customers see live diamond inscribing

Tustin, Calif.–The Jewelry Exchange retail chain will be offering its diamond customers the opportunity to choose their own inscriptions and then sit back and watch a computer screen as those words get inscribed on their newly purchased diamond at the company’s factory.

Customers will first approve the image of the transcription on screen and then can wait and watch the laser-inscribing process, which takes just minutes, The Jewelry Exchangesaid in a press release issued on Wednesday, announcing its acquisition of the newest PhotoScribe Cold Laser System for its state-of-the-art factory.

Through the inscription process, which the retailer says is 100 percent safe for laser-inscribing diamonds, customers can either have a diamond engraved with a special message of their own choosing or with a security code that would include the diamond certification number.

The inscription is done by using a tiny, precise laser beam that transforms a thin layer–just a few atoms thick–of the sparkling diamond crystal itself to opaque carbon crystal or graphite.

The cold-laser energy fully absorbs into the diamond in a process that the company describes as being superior to the hot-laser technology on the market, and which also does not require any pre-laser or post-laser processing, such as painting the diamond, which can produce inconsistent engraving.

The diamond can be inscribed all around the girdle using the special laser process, the company said. The laser inscription does not change the clarity or color grade of a diamond as it is microscopic and invisible to the unaided eye, viewable only under 10-times magnification, which requires a jeweler’s loupe or other magnifier.

The inscription process is considered permanent since it can only be removed by a professional diamond cutter. Removing the inscription would not change the weight or appearance of the diamond, the company says.

The Jewelry Exchange is a division of Goldenwest Diamond Corp. and has been operating for more than 32 years in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, Fla., Tustin, Calif., and Washington D.C., where it does business as The Jewelry Exchange. The company operates as The Jewelry Factory in Cleveland, Detroit and New York. In Houston, the company operates as The Jewelry Source.

The Cuff Watch by Buccellati

Courtesy of: Buccellati.com

Designer Gianmaria Buccellati has created another brilliant piece of jewelry – the Cuff “watch-jewel”.

The Cuff “watch-jewel” is a contemporary version of the ancient “slave’s style” bracelet. Based on Roman history, the style is a symbol of woman’s devotion to man and vice versa.

The cuff bracelet has since denoted the endless and unbreakable bond of love between man and woman.

The bracelet by Buccellati, is made of either 18K yellow or white gold. The style can be produced with four various floral designs, all set with brilliant-cut diamonds. The watch has precision Swiss quartz movement and utilizes a push-button rather than the usual crown.

The unique Gianmaria Buccellati design pays tribute to Sandro Botticelli, an artist that he’s always admired.

Diamonds and the Famous Jewelers who Set Them

Diamonds are the most precious jewels with which a jeweler can practice their trade. There are no gems that are so prized as are diamonds and none that commands such a high price. Because of this, some of the most famous jewelers in the world have built their reputations based on their diamond creations. Where the creation of an elegant, glamorous and oftentimes show-stopping piece is concerned, there is no better medium in which these artists may work.

The name Tiffany is synonymous with elegance. The founder and owner of Tiffany & Co., Charles Lewis Tiffany, made a reputation so enduring that a particular setting of his own design carries his name to this day and is considered one of the standard options for setting the most priceless diamonds. The Tiffany setting is designed to display the diamond in a way that it is most availed of what it needs to show its beauty to the world: light. Set on six prongs, diamonds in a Tiffany setting truly sparkle. For gems that deserve to be set in a way that unavoidably draws the eye to them, it is one of the best and serves as a testament to Tiffany’s sensitivity to the artistic display of such beautiful stones.

Harry Winston, 1896-1978, is a legend in the world of jewelers. Not only did he work with some of the most famous gems in the world, he worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood and was known as the preferred jeweler for film celebrities. Winston had an abiding love of diamonds and was the owner of the Hope Diamond, possibly the most famous diamond in all the world. As any jeweler is wont to do, Winston wanted the world to see for themselves the beauty of this spectacular gem and, to that end, he donated it to the Smithsonian Institute in the late 1950’s where it still resides today.

Winston’s clients included the one celebrity who, aside from Marilyn Monroe, is probably most associated with diamonds: Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor was given a diamond that weighed over 69 carats by her husband Richard Burton. Burton once joked that, if their movie careers should falter, they could sell the diamonds of which they were so famously fond to make ends meet. Winston’s association with Hollywood continues until this day. Over 30 years after his death, the stars still seek his creations when they’re going to be seen on the red carpet at Hollywood’s biggest events. A $20 million recreation of the “Heart of the Ocean” diamond owned by Kate Winslet’s character in the 1997 film “Titanic” was made by Winston’s company. His Harry Winston Diamond Company endures to this day.

When shopping for diamonds, customers are often advised to pay attention to the cut of the gem, one of the four C’s in the mnemonic they often use to remind themselves of the marks of quality. Famous jewelers often patent their own cuts as a way of distinguishing themselves from others and of establishing themselves as authorities in the gem cutting world. The famous Israeli diamond cutter Gabi Tolkowsky patented the Eternal cut, a very complex cut that features a flower-like pattern of facets, that is currently offered only from the Gerrard Company of England. This company also made a recreation of the “Heart of the Sea” diamond from “Titanic”, though their necklace used a sapphire in place of the blue diamond that was the centerpiece of the jewelry in the film.

The most distinguished gem-cutters often become collectors themselves, and are sometimes tasked with working with the most precious of all stones. In some cases, they also broker some of the most well-known diamonds in the world and, in doing so, further cement their reputation and legend as among those whose life’s work is more distinguished by their association with such great wealth. Charles Lewis Tiffany, for example, acquired a portion of the French Crown Jewels, which further elevated him in status among his peers. Having in his possession the famous Hope Diamond did nothing to diminish the reputation of Harry Winston, to be certain. His longevity and prosperity, ironically, cast doubt upon one of the legends surrounding the diamond itself: that it’s possessor inherits a curse.

The work of famous jewelers represents some of the most expensive art in the world. Though this art is wearable, it is oftentimes found displayed, as in the case of the hope diamond, or in the collections of individuals who possess such items as a type of investment. The value of such items, as it tends to increase with age, precludes many of them from being worn. Like the gems from which their created, however, whether they’re worn or displayed, their beauty is, indeed, forever.

Harry Winston Marquesa Diamonds Watch

This Harry Winston Marquesa Precious stones Watch is the ultimate in watch luxury. The punch is brindled with 115 diamonds, case drop-shaped in platinum , bezel with 38 diamonds, azure bottle with glareproof analysis on both sides, platinum set band with 116 diamonds.

Quartz movement, adumbration of hours and minutes, water-resistant up to 30 meters.

The overachievers: America’s Best Jewelers 2009

Optimism is harder to appear by these days, as even stalwarts such as Tiffany and Co. and Sterling Jewelers abide to watch double-digit slides in their sales.

But the retailers who rose to the top in National Jeweler’s 2009 America’s Best Jewelers (ABJ) Benchmarking Analysis are affidavit absolute that accepting absolute may help. In fact, a part of the a lot of assisting jewelers responding to the survey, 64 percent accepted sales to acceleration this year, with 40 percent anticipating boosts of 1 percent to 10 percent.

The brilliant expectations didn’t appear easy–not this year. Overall, ABJ analysis respondents appear a boilerplate bead in sales of 0.7 percent amid 2008 and 2007, and boilerplate affairs fell from a boilerplate $450 in 2005, to $425 in 2008. Still, some food accept been faring bigger than others at befitting sales able during this downturn.

High-profit firms, authentic in the analysis as those firms that rank in the top 50 percent of all companies according to arrangement of balance afore absorption and taxes (EBIT) to absolute assets, saw sales acceleration 3.7 percent. Low-profit firms, those in the basal bisected of the EBIT-to-assets bracket, saw sales abatement 12.6 percent.

So, what’s the aberration amid the habits of the big earners and the basal dwellers? National Jeweler talked to a few of the food appointed as America’s Best Jewelers to acquisition out.

While the winners action a advanced ambit of access for retailers to aces and accept from, backstab champ Susan Eisen of Susan Eisen Fine Adornment and Watches in El Paso, Texas, offers a simple business philosophy: Acquisition out who and what you are, and be that.

For Eisen, an El Paso built-in who majored in art metals in academy and considers herself as abundant an artisan as a business person, this agency active a abundance with an absorbed arcade space, accepting accessible to the abstraction of crafting pieces from abnormal and not-so-fine abstracts such as chestnut and turquoise, and not spending every day staring at and annoyed over her store’s financials.

The absolute key, she says, is for retailers to amount out what works for them. For Eisen, that agency breaking out of the cast of “typical jeweler” and not accepting abashed about aggravating new tactics.

“I’m not afraid,” Eisen says. “Artists yield risks.”

Getting personal, accepting flexible

One breadth that requires an adept approach, abnormally lately, is affairs design jewelry–at atomic aloft bridal.

When asked to almanac sales in 14 altered artefact categories, precious stones came out on top a part of survey-takers, acquisitive up 39.5 percent of sales volume, including design adornment (28.2 percent) and apart precious stones (11.3 percent). Colored rock adornment was next, advantageous 7.8 percent of the boilerplate sales volume, followed by appraisals at 7.1 percent and karat gold adornment at 6.8 percent.

Those called in the analysis as high-profit accept allegedly begin a way to advertise added diamonds, admitting contempo challenges.

High-profit food accomplished a 6.8 percent boilerplate access in loose-diamond sales amid 2007 and 2008, compared with a boilerplate abatement of 5.3 percent for low-profit firms.

Diamond adornment sales added a boilerplate of 0.8 percent for high-profit firms, while low-profit firms saw them blooper 14.6 percent.

ABJ champ Tyler Klima of Tyler’s Gold and Precious stones in Manchester, Iowa, attributes his design adornment sales access in 2008 to added advertising.

“I got actual advancing in my marketing,” says Klima, who wrote radio spots for his abundance in which he reveals claimed details–such as the actuality that he’s the youngest of three boys–but avoids crowing about auction items, or calling out specific product.

“I anticipate that’s fabricated a lot of difference,” Klima says. “People wish to accessory with the alone they’re traveling to do business with. It makes me added human, added claimed in their eyes.”

Though radio equaled big business for Klima, he’s an aberration a part of top scorers. Alone 38.9 percent of high-profit firms appear putting radio commercials on the air, compared with 62.9 percent of low-profit firms.

The a lot of accepted forms of business a part of all food were absolute mail, acclimated by 71.8 percent of all stores, followed by non-partner in-store events, acclimated by 60.5 percent, and anniversary ads, active by 55.6 percent of all stores.

Also absorbing is that while Klima avoids discussing promotions while he’s on the air, 55.6 percent of high-profit firms use business to advance specials and sales, compared with just 31.4 percent of low-profit firms.

Emerson Robbins, an ABJ champ who operates E.E. Robbins food in Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue, Wash., has acquainted into amount issues by adjusting his design sales to clothing today’s frugal consumer.

While Robbins acclimated to abstain precious stones beneath SI1 clarity, he is now blame SI2 appurtenances with aplomb, award new cuts, such as the Passion Cut diamond, that bigger adumbrate inclusions.

These stones still attending acceptable but don’t backpack the ample amount tag that can appear with a college accuracy rating.

“To the eye, they’re still admirable stones,” Robbins says. “They just don’t absolutely as high. I feel the industry has absolutely done itself a disservice by affairs based on certificates rather than on the alone adorableness of the diamond.”

A third-generation jeweler, Robbins was one of the co-founders of Robbins Bros., alongside brother Steve, but eventually autonomous to annex out on his own.

Today, Robbins says he still considers his operation a ancestors business, just like 89.4 percent of analysis respondents.

One acceptable turn

In accession to accepting a adroitness for affairs stones, high-profit firms managed to about-face account added bound than their low-profit counterparts, advertisement a about-face of 1.2 against 1.0.

The boilerplate age of account for high-profit firms is 12 months compared with 18 months for low-profit firms, and high-profit firms say 10 percent of their account is added than three years old, while 16 percent of low-profit firms say the same.

Both high-profit and low-profit food appear abiding 3 percent of account to vendors but, if they do advertise adamant merchandise, high-profit firms do so after affairs out, affairs alone 1 percent of commodity at beneath than bazaar value, compared with low-profit firms, which unloaded 3 percent of commodity at bargain prices, the analysis found.

At Duncan and Boyd Jewelers in Amarillo, Texas, ABJ champ Ronald Boyd advocates application a acceptable account administration arrangement to admonition about-face commodity over faster. He uses ARMS software with the training provided by Focus Management.

“You charge to be on some array of account administration arrangement that works with you, gives you those letters and appearance you [what's turning],” Boyd says.

Another aphorism to reside by: A few acceptable vendors are bigger than a continued account of characterless ones. That aphorism is key to active Boyd’s No. 1 action for accepting rid of age-old inventory, which is trading it back.

“You accept to accept a accord with your vendors,” he says. “You don’t charge 100 vendors. You charge 10 acceptable ones.”

A agents that stays together

Finding superior staffers, befitting them and training them is an affair that perplexes retailers, whether they accept been accessible for beneath than 10 years or added than 40.

“Finding the appropriate cadre and accepting them accomplished is allegedly the hardest assignment of all,” says Mark Clodius, who owns nine-year-old Clodius and Co. Jewelers in Rockford, Ill., with his wife, Monika.

Not surprisingly, high-profit firms accept a bigger handle on animal resources, analysis after-effects show.

The boilerplate anniversary activity about-face amount for all food surveyed was 12 percent, but high-profit firms’ about-face amount was 11.2 percent, while low-profit firms came in at 21.4 percent.

At Phil Jewelers in Anderson, S.C., buyer Phil Silverstein hasn’t absent an agent in three years. In anecdotic his compound for captivation his blessed agents ancestors of six full-time advisers calm for so long, he sounds a bit like Dr. Phil giving admonition for a blessed marriage.

“We account anniversary other,” Silverstein says. “We plan things out. We ask anniversary added questions–nobody knows all the answers. We get forth every day.”

Another abstruse to befitting staffers blessed is to advance the wealth, a tactic that is allegedly acclaimed to high-profit firms, which pay staffers a hardly college alternate allowance in every class analyzed in the survey, except advice technology.

For example, the boilerplate alternate allowance for managers at high-profit firms is $25.50, compared with $24 at low-profit firms. For salespeople, the aberration is added dramatic, with high-profit firms paying $18 an hour to low-profit firms’ $13.10.

“We go able-bodied aloft the [salary] barometer for this area,” Silverstein says. “If we didn’t, we wouldn’t accept them. Humans are consistently absent to bigger themselves financially, and we’re a footfall advanced of that.”

High-profit firms aswell assume to accord advisers a bit added abandon to accomplish absolute decisions. A absolute of 42.9 percent of high-profit firms let staffers accomplish appraisement decisions after a supervisor’s OK, against 27.3 percent of low-profit firms.

Learn to sell

Both high-profit and low-profit firms abode agnate levels of accent on agent training.

A absolute of 44.5 percent of all food surveyed appear dedicating 21 or added hours a year per agent to training full-time employees, including 48.6 percent of high-profit firms and 47.1 percent of low-profit firms.

High-profits firms, however, seemed to abode a greater accent on befitting training in-house.

A absolute of 94.1 percent of these firms ranked company-run, in-store training as actual important, compared with alone 79.4 percent of low-profit firms.

Low-profit firms seemed to adopt off-site alien training, ranked as actual important by 50 percent of these stores, against alone 41.2 percent of high-profit firms.

Mark Clodius uses a alloy of both styles, administering twice-a-week affairs in his abundance and bringing in alfresco experts, such as Harry Friedman of The Friedman Group.

Clodius says Friedman teaches the administration to do statistical breakdowns account employees’ sales weaknesses so that they can plan on them.

“You don’t absolutely anticipate about it [when you're a salesperson],” Clodius says. “You go out on the sales attic and try to admonition people. But if you’re thinking, ‘My bang-up tells me I should alpha affairs added big-ticket merchandise,’ again you’re added acceptable to appearance added big-ticket merchandise.”

How they operate

Here’s a attending at the basic statistics of America’s Best Jewelers analysis respondents.

41.5 percent are a Sub-S Corporation

89.4 percent accede themselves a ancestors business

69.1 percent hire their facilities

79.8 percent accomplish just one store

30.6 percent run their alone store, or their best store, in a city location

44.6 percent address absolute anniversary sales of $1.5 million-plus

39.5 percent of what these food advertise is apart precious stones or design jewelry

Source: The 2009 America’s Best Jewelers Summary Data Report, Advantage Business Information, National Jeweler

About this survey

The 2009 America’s Best Jewelers (ABJ) Benchmarking Analysis was produced by Advantage Business Advice for National Jeweler.

The analysis is in its additional year and is advised to analyze best practices aural the industry. It was conducted online amid April and June and, for the aboriginal time, was done in affiliation with addition industry benchmarking survey, Jewelers of America’s (JA) anniversary “Cost of Doing Business Survey.”

A absolute of 687 respondents abounding out the JA analysis while the ABJ analysis garnered 124 complete responses.

Jie Mi Royal Jewelry

The beginning of the last century in the United Kingdom has a touching “love Jiangshan a deeper love for beauty,” the story. The heroine of the story – Mrs. Simpson, there is a gigantic emerald ring. This ring is for her to give up the throne from the former King Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor. Today, you talk about the Kingdom and the Beauty Behind the royal family who handed down in the little-known story of colored gemstones ~ ~

Edward VIII period: Wreath Style

Into the late nineteenth century, the French jewelry craftsmen of the world community with an elegant jewelry, “Garland Style”, the circular frame and decorate the top of the flower, leaf let “Wreath style” of jewelry looks like a beautiful picture. At this time the use of expensive jewelry with precious stones is no longer just the precious metals silver and gold, platinum began to be applied. Platinum metallographic for gold and silver have superior brightness and hardness, the use of platinum to the traditional material less jewelry of precious metals, jewelry itself is lighter, and create a sense of more precise modeling.

Edward VIII era, applied arts and enamel flower-shaped brooch, manufacturing in 1905, the broad leaves of the design is obviously the impact from the east.

Edward VIII peridot pendant times, manufacturing in 1905, square cut workers and teardrop cut olivine accompanied by fancy gold gold, on the 18th-century style, and there is no difference.

Bird of paradise brooch, using gold, platinum, emerald, topaz and other materials, manufacturing in 1950, out of influence of the times, jewelry modeling arbitrarily reference style periods.

Victorian Age: an alliance with the diamond

Victorian-style bracelet, using ruby, gold and diamonds, manufacturing in 1880, the Queen’s aesthetic taste with Japan does not affect the vast and far-reaching empire. Then in color gemstone jewelry bracelet class applications peaked.

Bug shape brooch, by the Victorian concern about the impact of natural culture, manufacturing in 1880, using pearls and rubies, as modified.

The early 20th century: the first post-Art Deco

From the 20th century, beginning, Louis Cartier to come from Egypt, Persia, the Far East and the Russian ballet (the Ballets russes) for some design inspiration and style into the more traditional geometric patterns and abstract designs. In 1906, they began to have a rich color of some innovative materials such as onyx, coral, etc. applied to the design, and form a strong new artistic styles. This style of Paris in 1925 organized by the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and craft arts, after known as “decorative art” (Art Deco).

Cartier produced the works in 1930, including extensive use of the round cut and long cut of the brown square-shaped crystal, 20 years after the gold alloy to be applied more firmly embedded and fixed with gold claws small, precious stones arranged more intensive.

After 1950, elegant style and pop art began to affect the world, experienced a bleak World War II decades, fashion design began to recover in 50 years, there has been refreshing new look (new face), long A-skirts, tight tops, elegant exquisite, fashion master Dior (Dior) to cool lake elegant style has been called “soft dictator.” Reflected in the clothing design, extensive use of bright light, bright artificial leather, coated fabrics, and metal and plastic products. The success of the “new look” mentor Dior jewelry inheritance is not completely ruled out pre-war and wartime style, emphasis should be designed because of the size of the stones.

However, the noble end of the era, even of aesthetics can not stop, and prosperity of the 20th century 50 years the world’s biggest trend is to return platinum and diamond jewelry, colored gemstone jewelry into a long-term relative silence.

Talk To Me, Harry Winston Snowflake Watch

Out of all the luxury watch brands I know, I feel like Harry Winston comes in first a giving their women’s watches odd names. They certainly aren’t the weirdest names, but they just feel the most awkward. No better example that the “Talk To Me, Harry Winston” line of watches. This version being the Talk To Me, Harry Winston Snowflake. I can’t tell if it is a question, a phrase, a term of endearment, or just someone who doesn’t speak English making up watch names. 

This new Talk To Me, Harry Winston watch takes the same case style and adds a diamonds-as-snowflakes dial. The dial is available in either a black or silver tone with 111 set diamonds in a falling snowflake display. The dial is rotatable, and the entire disc is moved via turning the disc that is accessible on the side of the watch case. A little thing, but something to play with nonetheless. The white gold case is 33mm wide and 40mm tall. The case itself is lovely in shape having strips of polished surface space to serve as the hour indicators, while the rest of the case is covered with 164 more diamonds. Then another 24 diamonds on to rotating ring, and still another 29 diamonds on the white gold buckle attached tot he black satin strap. Total diamond weight for the watch is 4.1 carats. The movement is Swiss quartz. Price is yet unknown, but in the ultra luxury range, of course.

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